Skating on Skim Ice: The Life and Times of Richard Andrew Gartee
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What can Dick Gartee show us about thriving in challenging times?
From the Roaring Twenties to the age of smartphones, Dick faces tribulations and joys with morality, humor, and humility. Elements of daily life that seemed ordinary to Dick are inconceivable to young people today.
During the Great Depression, the only hockey puck in the neighborhood slides onto thin skim-ice and nine-year-old Dick heroically skates after it.When his father leaves his mother for another woman, plucky thirteen-year-old Dick takes a night job in a bakery to help his mother make ends meet.At seventeen, with World War II raging, he enlists in the Navy and rises from gunner mate to payroll and disbursements. By age twenty, the Navy trusts him with two million dollars cash.In the post-war years, he teaches himself engineering, builds factories, and designs manufacturing production lines and industrial robots.His biography is more than the story of one man's trials and joys. It is a lens into life during transformative decades that altered America forever.
Younger readers will be astonished to learn how people managed before smartphones, while older generations will smile as they recall anecdotes their parents shared. But no matter your age, you will be charmed by Dick's story, and maybe you will discover some things you didn't already know.
Click the Buy button now and meet the America of the greatest generation.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:099067682X
ISBN13:9780990676829
Release Date:September 2018
Publisher:Lake and Emerald Publications
Length:304 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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